North Norfolk Funeral Celebrant

North Norfolk Funeral Celebrant I am an Independent Funeral Celebrant, specialising in offering services tailored to your individual The service can be at a crematorium or graveside.

My name is Michael Ayden and I trained with, and was assessed by The Funeral Celebrant Academy, and am a holder of their Certificate of Excellence. As a truly Independent Celebrant I am able to work with all Funeral Directors and can offer exactly the type of service or celebration that you desire for your loved one. I am happy to conduct a totally non-religious service or include a religious elem

ent if required. Before retiring from full-time employment, I worked for over 20 years with the older generation, running retirement accommodation. This gave me understanding and experience of dealing not just with elderly residents but their families too, sometimes under sad circumstances. I bring this experience with me when meeting families at perhaps the saddest time of their life, when having to make arrangements for the funeral of a loved one. At the initial meeting, which will be at a venue of your choosing, I will discuss with you the type of service you require, as well as chatting about your loved one, gaining enough information to write a personalised tribute to be used on the day. A draft of that tribute will be sent to you within two days, giving you a chance to make any alterations you require. When you are absolutely happy with it, a final copy of it will be made for use at the service. Shortly after the service you will be given a copy of it to keep as a lasting memory. I can promise you that every tribute and service will be as unique as the person they are honouring. I am happy to work throughout North Norfolk, or further afield if required. Contact can be made with me directly, or you are more than welcome to ask your Funeral Director to contact me on your behalf.

08/12/2023

Karen and I have just spent a couple of days putting up Christmas decorations, feeling festive and looking forward to spending time with friends and family. Towards the end of the day I received an email asking me to conduct a funeral service 3 days before Christmas, my 34th service this year.

It made me think, and perhaps get a little melancholy. After each of those services, I have returned home and it has been back to life just as it was before, but for the families I have just been with, life will never be quite the same again. An integral part of their lives is now missing, and this will be their first Christmas without someone very dear to them.

We may spend our entire lives thinking about all kinds of things that are important to us, but what my two years as a funeral celebrant have taught me is that ultimately it is the love of those we hold dear that matters most.

So this Christmas, cherish those you love, (even with their annoying habits!), and be thankful you still have them. Perhaps we can all show some extra support and compassion for anyone we know who will be spending a first Christmas, (or even another Christmas) without a loved one.

Sending best wishes for this Festive Season, and The New Year.

10/06/2023

Always nice to have been able to help a family get through a difficult and sad day.

12/12/2022

During this year I have been privileged to have been asked to conduct the funeral service for around 30 people, and I have tried to make each service as personal and individual as possible. Those 30 people were not just names, but parents, children, siblings, partners and friends, and their passing has left a huge gap in the lives of their loved ones left behind. As we approach Christmas, a time of general celebration, laughter and fun, their grief may seem all the more acute, facing the first Christmas without someone who had always been such a big part of their lives. And for those who have passed, many of them will have left behind unfulfilled dreams, unfinished business and perhaps unresolved differences.

So as we approach the festive season, with its message of peace, hope and love, can I encourage you all to give your loved ones an extra loving hug, and tell them how you feel. Unresolved differences with someone? No time of year like Christmas to try and resolve them.

Perhaps this Christmas is the time not to think about getting what we want, but to appreciate what, and who, we already have in our lives.

Sending my best wishes to you all, and particularly if you have been bereaved this year my thoughts and prayers are with you.

Just finished my first year as a Celebrant, and it has been a privilege to assist families with the preparation and pres...
01/05/2022

Just finished my first year as a Celebrant, and it has been a privilege to assist families with the preparation and presentation of funerals and services of celebration for their loved ones. Every service has been as individual as the life it has celebrated. It has been very touching to have received messages from families such as this; "The service was lovely, and thank you for making such an incredibly difficult day much easier". I look forward to helping more families to honour their loved ones in providing a fitting tribute.

25/06/2021

Lovely to receive an email from an appreciative family after conducting a funeral this week. "We would just like to say a massive thanks for yesterday from all the family. Numerous people have said what a lovely service it was, which we feel is down to you being so calm and collected."

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